Must be my lucky day!
WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!
Or.... NOT!
What kind of an idiot do these people think I am, anyway?
POWERBALL ONLINE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL HEADQRTS
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
Dear Winner,
This is to notify you that your email address has been
selected in our end of year online email lottery program
conducted November 1st,2007 and was attached to ticket number
32-111-790-88 with Serial number 5390/06 drew the lucky number
: 33 and have won you £200,000.00 here in our Corporate headquarters
in United Kingdom.
You are to immediately submit a confirmation email immediately to
email addresses below :
E-MAIL: net2enquiries@yahoo.com
The following details below are required to clarification.
1. First & Last Name
2. Contact Address
3. Tel Numbers
4. Age
5. Sex
6. Occupation
7. Country of residence
Congratulations.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Maureen Whyte
Online Co-ordinator
PBL Online lottery Promotion
Besides, what would I do with £200,000.00?
In case you were wondering, that's $403,962.88 in good ol' US Dollars.
Or 45,758,894.76 Japanese Yen.
Or 1,611,459.41 Israeli New Shekels
Or 2,245,528.64 Egyptian Pounds
Or 71,238,853.15 Hungarian Forints
Or 9,976,671.14 Russian Rubles
Or 4,376,331.82 Mexican Pesos
Or 279,907.90 Euros
You get the idea...
posted by Tim @ 23:26
9 Comments:
The same thing happened to me, but it wasn't from a lottery inquiry, it was from a "representative" of Guinness Beer telling me I had won the same amount. Imagine that!
I had visited Guinness' site about a year ago looking for a Beer Cheese recipe, but that was the only time. I guess somehow these tricksters wormed their way into the site or visitor e-mail info to get my address.
Ree-dic-u-luuuuuus!
"What kind of an idiot do these people think I am, anyway?"
um... the kind that has fallen for an internet scam in the past?
for you it was the promise of a connection with another person. for others, it's money. people fall for these things because they offer hope.
just like another scam i know - one that involves getting otherwise sensible people to believe the ramblings of a bunch of bronze age nomads...
hey green I have some swamp land I'm tryin to sell in Florida, you interested ?
;-)
esther: ree-dic-u-luuuuuus indeed.
ag: I knew I could count on you to rehash my foolishness of a few years ago.
But sadly, you've missed the boat on the last comment. More than this I will not say here.
bluez: I'll trade you your swampland for a bridge I know of that' rumored to be for sale.
if anyone has free money, pass some here!
well in fairness, you did bring it up..
ag: Umm, no I didn't. You did. Where in this post did I specifically refer to that incident? It is now but a distant memory and I'd prefer to keep it that way.
Green, no worries now.
I'm not a scam artist.
no, you didn't mention that time specifically, but you were the one who brought up the subject of "who would fall for such an obvious scam?" when you had done exactly that.
And yes, the one you fell for was just as obvious as this one.
anyhow, this thread is starting to parralel a little too closely the classic:
"why do you keep mentioning the war?"
"you started it"
"No i didn't"
"yes you did, you invaded Poland!"
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